thoughts from a basset hound-loving writer who supposedly destroyed civilization by marrying his partner

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Washington DC Council to vote on marriage today

The City Council of Washington, DC is expected to hold its second vote on same sex marriage at 11:00 this morning. The measure was approved 11-2 on its first vote; the second vote is expected to pass just as handily. After this second vote, the bill is sent to Congress for a 30-day review period. It is within the rights of Congress by passing a joint House-Senate resolution and then getting the approval of the President. This seems unlikely and serves as a reminder that now matter how frustrated some of us may be with the slow pace of LGBT legislation in Washington, life is different under Democratic rule than it was under the Bush administration.

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I hope you'll visit often and post comments. My book of short stories, "if you were with me everything would be all right," won the Violet Quill Award for Best Gay Fiction of the Year and was named one of the "twenty books of note" by the "Lambda Literary Review." It was also translated into Italian. My stories have been published in over 20 literary magazines and I've read my work on "On Point," a program on National Public Radio.

I'm a former middle school teacher who lives in Boston and in Toronto with my partner and two basset hounds. My memoir, "A Passionate Engagement," is forthcoming in October, 2010.